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Special to the Jewish News
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elections from a Sabbath
concert service composed by
Michigan cantor Sholom
Kalib will be part of the
largest collection of American Jewish
music ever recorded.
Kalib's A Day of Rest is among the
sacred and secular works included in
the Milken Archive of American
Jewish Music, a recording project
dedicated to discovering and preserv-
ing compositions of musical works
pertaining to Jewish life in America
of the past 350 years.
A total of seven CDs were released
in September and in October;
approximately two per month will
follow in the next two years, for a
total of 50 CDs featuring 600 works
— more than 500 of which have
never before been recorded or
released commercially.
The compositions range from
Sephardic chants sung by the first
Jews to settle in America in the 17th
century to current jazz-inspired litur-
gical music. Also included are operas,
symphonies, klezmer, chamber
music, ballets, hits of the Yiddish
theater, and songs of Zionism and
social action.
At a later date, the archive will
release a 20-volume box set of some
80 CDs, arranged according to his-
torical, liturgical and social themes,
and musical genres. The set will also
include oral histories of living and
recently deceased artists, extensive
liner notes and essays by leading -
scholars. A full curriculum of texts
and videos, including the first defini-
tive textbook on American Jewish
music, will be available.
The collection of the first 50 discs
represents- the works of more than
200 American-born and emigre corn-
posers, performed by more than 250
artists, including 36 conductors, 26
choral groups, 23 cantors, 15 cham-
ber ensembles and 10 orchestras.
The multiyear recording series, on
the Naxos Ameri6n Classics label,
calls attention to the 350th anniver-
sary of the arrival of the first Jews in
America to be celebrated in 2004.
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